The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: The Half-Incense Guide

Zhang Banxiang runs a paper effigy shop on Hefang Street, with a nose that can smell the dead. The women of the Xiangniang line never live past twenty-four. Until the man in black pushed open the door to buy incense. She couldn't smell a thing on him, as if he were a sealed well, but he could hear the ghosts whispering in her ear. Paper figures roam by night, the old forests of western Hunan, bronze in Changbai. She lights incense to ferry souls; he stands guard at the door with a blade. “I have one of these coins too.” “Half a stick of incense, an offering to Heaven and Earth, and to you.” 【A half-incense medium who can identify ghosts by scent × a scentless guardian｜He has stood watch for three thousand years; she is the first person he wants to remember｜Happy ending】